Rhodesia: Why Minority Rule Survives
London: Christian Action Publications, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; vi, 40pp. Fine, unmarked copy. More
London: Christian Action Publications, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; vi, 40pp. Fine, unmarked copy. More
New York: Education Department, ILGWU, n.d. but ca. 1962. First Edition. Statement prepared "To set it clear that the ILGWU has no quarrel with the NAACP or any other civil rights organizations on the principles of equal opportunity [and] To make a FACTUAL examination of the 'charges' raised publicly by..... More
Autograph in black ink on front cover of the "South Carolina Picture Book" (Columbia: South Carolina Film Office, ca 2004). Reads: "Randy / Peace / Jesse Jackson," dated 3/30/04. More
New York: Bridgehead Books, 1964. First Edition. Novel about a mixed group of twelve Freedom Riders, including a little white girl of eight, who leave Harlem on a trip to the South "to help raise the siege of Birmingham." Octavo (21cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on..... More
London: The Commonwealth Secretariat, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 163pp; bibliography. Fine in lightly faded dustwrapper. Apparently unread. More
Washington DC: Repression Information Project, 1978. First Edition. Single issue in original wrappers. Staple-bound thick-paper wrappers; 56pp; illus. Bit of discoloration to covers and contents; text printed on newsprint, toned but not fragile. Organ of the Repression Information Project and the Guild Investigative Group, formed in the 1970s to monitor..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. First Edition. First printing. Large octavo (26cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xxiii,484pp; illus. Fine in the original dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy. Volume 1 only. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. First Edition. First printing. Large octavo (26cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xxx,4673pp; illus. Fine in the original dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy. Volume 5 only. More
Detroit: Mohawk Publishing Co., [1967]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 79pp.; photographic illus. Some foxing and shallow chips and tears to jacket extremities. Fine in About Very Good jacket. More
New York: The Dryden Press, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Analysis of the 1943 Detroit Race Riots, with detailed descriptions and chronology of events. The authors were both professors of Sociology at Wayne State University. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; xii,143,[5]pp. Light..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 507pp. New, unread copy. Scholarly biography of the long-time editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, one of the few journalistic voices for racial and economic justice in the South during the early Civil Rights era..... More
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 172pp. New, unread copy. Career of newspaperman Lenoir Chambers, editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, who took a controversial pro-segregation stance following the Brown vs. Board of Education decision. The Pilot was the state's only white..... More
[N.p.: CPUSA, 1967]. Corner-stapled, sheets, 14" x 8-1/2"; 20pp. Single horizontal fold, mild edgewear; Very Good. Substantial report from Lightfoot, at this time Secretary of the CPUSA's National Committee on Negro Affairs, addressed to the "National Conference" of the CPUSA, outlining a strategy for Party involvement in the Civil Rights..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper to Detroit newspaperman William Noble: "To Bill Noble / with many thanks and best wishes," signed twice, dated March, 1973. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 207pp; maps. A fine copy in unclipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. Analysis of the 1967..... More
[Johannesburg]: Central News Agency, (1945). First Edition. Octavo. Illustrated wrappers; 71pp. Very Good. Cover artwork by J.M Leyden. Conservative plan for economic reform, with little substantive reference to apartheid. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office / Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, [1973]. First Edition. Quarto. Printed card wrappers; 209pp. Includes bibliography. Fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy. More
New York: Pathfinder Press, 1979. Includes: "Malcolm X Talks to Young People, December 31, 1964"; "Interview with Malcolm X, January 18, 1965"; and "In Tribute to Malcolm X" (by Jack Barnes). Much reproduced in various formats by various publishers. Fifth Pathfinder printing. Slim octavo (21.5 cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 30pp..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 312pp. Fine, unread copy. A "dispassionate" examination of the women's movement from a male perspective, by the San Francisco journalist and prolific author on social-movement themes. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 206pp. Very Good copy in slightly worn jacket, scuffed on front panel with old paper reinforcements to verso; two contemporary ink ownership signatures to endpapers. A serviceable copy of this rather uncommon memoir by the legendary Virginia labor..... More
New York: Belmont Productions, Inc., [c. 1970]. First Belmont printing. Mass-market paperback. 12mo; pictorial wrappers (softcover); 220,(4)pp. Text uniformly toned throughout; touch of wear at crown of spine, still a tight, clean, Near Fine copy, with no reading creases or significant wear to wrappers. Mass-market reissue of Mayfield's highly-regarded first..... More
[Berkeley: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute], 1983. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's grey pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in reddish-brown; unpaginated; illus. Light cockling from exposure to damp, faint crease and brief ink note to upper cover, else Very Good. Text opens with Institute President Ann Fagan Ginger's statement "From SNCC..... More
New York: Cameron Associates, 1956. First edition. First printing. 12mo. Pale tan cloth (hardcover); dustjacket; three preliminary leaves; [32]pp. Mild toning to cloth on spine, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap), lightly rubbed and toned, VG+. Publisher's review materials laid in, including a...... More
N.p. by the Author, 1921. Offprint. Scarce offprint, surveying the current state and future of educational opportunities for Blacks. "...While the mass of the race remains in the South, the educational center of gravity will be shifting towrad the North. Ambitious youth will flock to the centers of the best..... More
Washington DC: National Magazine, 1905. Offprint. Offprint from the February, 1905 issue of National Magazine. Octavo. Staple-bound self-wrappers; [6]pp. Binding holes in left margin. Somewhat worn copy, with general soil to outer leaves; partial split at bound edge; still Good or better. Scarce offprint; the article attacks Thomas Dixon's anti-miscegenation..... More
London: Minority Rights Group, n.d. [ca. 1981]. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.) bifolium, with order blank laid in. Light toning to extremities, else Near Fine. Mission statement of the Group, founded in 1969 by former Observer editor David Astor. More